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Wimbledon 2024 is being proudly sponsored by Barclays.

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New financial analysis reveals how one of Barclays’ darling clients, Adani Green Energy, is reportedly involved in yet another fraud scandal, and the bank’s financing could have helped them get there. 

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Champions – 8th year running

Barclays retains its crown as the biggest European bankroller of the fossil fuel industry since 2016, according to annual updates from RAN.

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Barclays tried to have another normal AGM.

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If you work at Citi you’ll probably know the bank is facing protests across the world.

Last month, headlines across the UK ran that Barclays was ending funding for new oil and gas, with the Telegraph notching this up as a ‘victory for net-zero activists’.

Citi is the 2nd biggest funder of the fossil fuel industry of any bank in the world, and whilst claiming to be a green leader, it’s secretly abandoned the ‘bare minimum standards’ on the impact of its funding on the environment and vulnerable communities.

Who is Adani and why is Barclays involved?

Adani is the world’s biggest developer of coal, and Barclays just helped it secure a $409 million “green” bond.

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What did Barclays just release?

Over 100 frontline and climate groups are writing to Citi to explain the damage they’re doing to communities by funding the poisoning of water and air:

Roishetta Ozane @Mzozane has a message for major fossil fuel funder @Citi:

“Our blood is on your hands.”

Citi must stop funding environmental racism and start investing in thriving communities and a safe climate.

Oxfam is joining a growing list of charities and civil society ditching Barclays for the billions it’s piling into the likes of Shell and Exxon. Oxfam now joins the University of Cambridge and Christian Aid, as well as dozens of other organisations aiming to distance themselves and their reputations from the toxic brand Barclays is developing.

Barclays is assembling a new Energy Transition Team to try and quell the massive pressure it’s facing to end the billions of dollars it’s providing to the likes of Shell and Exxon.

Citi’s commitment to oil giant ExxonMobil was reinforced recently when the US bank was named as the lead advisor on its $60 billion merger with Pioneer, one of the biggest oil deals for decades.

Barclays spends a lot of time and money telling staff, investors, and the media how green it is and how much it cares about supporting the transition to green energy.

No European bank has provided more billions of dollars to the fossil fuel industry than Barclays and at Barclays’ AGM in May, the chair of the Barclays board, Nigel Higgins, stood up and claimed that Barclays “reduced its financed emissions by 32% last year”.

This year, Bloomberg exposed a major Barclays blunder. Barclays sent oil and gas equity analysts to inspect the human rights implications of a heated oil pipeline owned by one of its biggest (and most brutal) fossil fuel clients TotalEnergies.

Citi is a lifeline for the fossil fuel industry, pumping in $333 BILLION into the sector since 2016. But it’s ok, Citi are now insisting that they’re helping to find a solution to climate change…while at the same time lobbying to ensure they don’t have to prove they are doing anything.

What’s the breaking news?

The Adani Group is the world’s biggest private coal developer. It loves piling billions into coal (the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel), corruption, fraud, and money laundering.

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A new report is showing that Citi is not only one of the biggest funders of oil and gas operations in the Amazon, it is the number one influencer when it comes to sealing dirty deals in the vulnerable region.

This is Barclays’ first year sponsoring Wimbledon. But rather than a solid bit of PR, it’s turned out to be more of a headache. That’s because Wimbledon takes its sustainability quite seriously and are coming under major pressure for partnering with Barclays, who has provided more cash to the fossil fuel industry than any other bank in Europe, since the Paris Climate Agreement.

There was one major topic at the Barclays AGM a few months back: the fact that Barclays are providing more cash to the fossil fuel industry than any other bank in Europe (since 2016).

It’s not just activists who are taking aim at Barclays over its funding of massive fossil fuel companies destroying lives and wrecking the planet.

Today, celebrities including Emma Thompson, Vanessa Nakate, Mary Portas, and Lolly Adefope, as well as organisations like Greenpeace UK, are saying they have #ZeroLoveForBarclays.